http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows seems to have what (little) Windows specific development documentation there is. It doesn't mention any specific IDE. I really have no idea, but I would guess that most Gnuchash developers are using something which might be what comes to mind when one thinks "IDE". That is, something like Emacs which is a really really fancy text editor, but doesn't do continuous builds, or procedure/method completion and inline documentation one gets with Java and Eclipse, say.
You aren't going to get much help unless you help yourself. I'd try to see what happens, trying to compile using http://www.mingw.org/. Or trying to setup a cygwin environment, and compiling with that (though, that might not count as being Windows...) IDE wise, there is no silver bullet. Get something better then notepad plus a command box. Jedit is reasonable. Eclipse with CDT might be worth trying. CDT does have those fancy 21st century IDE features, but (I havent tried with Gnucash), for C/C++ stuff they do tend to require a very specific coding approach, Gnucash sources perhaps being too complicated for the fancyness to work. Most of the documentation for the source is in the source, I would guess. Extending the source is easy: get a text editor, and extend it. If you have some specific question, I'm sure you will get help. But helping you with setting up a development environment really isn't any Gnucash devs job. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:36 AM, adekoya adekunle <adekunleadek...@gmail.com > wrote: > i would want to know of specific documentation that could help a > developer that intends to extend the source code. > > i mean if i could get a link to download a documentation that does > proper explanation of the source code and how to extend. > > > i would be glad that my questions are each and specifically treated so > i could minimize iterations in resolving the issues of source code > edits. > > thanks > > > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:21 PM, adekoya adekunle > <adekunleadek...@gmail.com> wrote: > > i have just downloaded something from : > > http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-2.2.9.tar.bz2 > > > > i want to know if that link contains a valid source for windows platform > ? > > > > i also want to know how to load the source code in any of the free > > open source IDE. > > > > > > i also have qt on my machine. can i use qt as my IDE ? > > > > > > i also want to know the file name that contains the entry-point > > function for the gnucash sofware ? > > > > knowing the entry-point function would help me in doing proper trace > > of the application execution path. > > > > please help on those specific questions. > > > > > > thanks > > > > 'kunle > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.an...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 15:01 +0200, adekoya adekunle wrote: > >>> hello, > >>> > >>> i have tried using gnucash in the last few weeks. > >>> > >>> we plan to be able to make a few customizations/extensions to gnucash > >>> to fit our purpose. > >>> > >>> i want you guys to show me where i can download the source code for > >>> gnucash( to be run on Ms Windows XP) . > >>> > >>> i also want you to show me where i can get a free IDE with compiler > >>> for compiling and executing the source. > >>> > >>> i hope to start making some customizations to the source code in the > >>> next few weeks. > >>> > >>> before then, i want to study the source and do some experimentation > >>> with source edits. > >>> > >>> any help ? > >>> > >>> thanks > >>> > >>> 'kunle > >> > >> hello, > >> > >> Have you looked at the main website[1]?? > >> > >> [1] > >>> http://www.gnucash.org/ > >> > >> regards, > >> Ankur > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-devel mailing list > >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
